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9 September 2022
Malaysia

A Parti Sosialis Malaysia (PSM) leader says menteris besar and chief ministers are being given vast powers on land matters in their states.

Real estate industry of Pakistan: Land lords vs state lords
30 November 2021
Pakistan

According to Prof Abdul Shakoor Shah, Pakistan is the most urbanized nation in South Asia. The Real Estate industry in Pakistan was instigated from Karachi. It subsisted even before partition. Property tycoons constructed buildings but the selling of plots was atypical. The industry started progressing in the 1950s and DHA came into being.

 

23 November 2021
Bangladesh

In Bangladesh, one in every seven people will be displaced due to climate change by the end of 2050, according to recent estimation. Sea level rise may cause the displacement of up to 18 million people of Bangladesh. Natural disasters are another reason for displacement where 700,000 people on average migrate every year according to the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre.

Chengeto Tapfuma, 59, boils water for tea outside the temporary shack she now shares with her four grandchildren. Their home in Budiriro 5, a suburb of Harare, was demolished by bulldozers in December after a court ruled that the residents had built their
11 January 2021
Africa
Zimbabwe

Harare, Zimbabwe – Chengeto Tapfuma, 59, has become accustomed to pain and loss.

Three years ago, she lost her only daughter after a long illness and became the sole provider for her four grandchildren, who are now aged between eight and 13.

The oldest will start secondary school in Harare’s Budiriro suburb, close to where they live, next year.

1 October 2021
Côte d'Ivoire

La troisième conférence du service des  conservateurs de la Direction générale des impôts (DGI) s’est ouverte, jeudi 30 septembre 2021, à Yamoussoukro, avec l’ambition d’opérer une introspection en vue de bannir les pratiques inopérantes et améliorer les résultats notamment en matière de délivrance des ACD.

8 October 2021
Côte d'Ivoire

Du 06 au 08 octobre 2021, s’est tenu au NSA HOTEL de Grand-Bassam, un atelier de réflexion sur « la réingénierie des procédures d’approbation des lotissements et de délivrance de l’Arrêté de concession Définitive (ACD) axées sur la réforme du titrement massif des parcelles foncières urbaines ».

29 April 2021
Africa
Northern Africa
Egypt
Latin America and the Caribbean
Asia
Iraq
Jordan
Lebanon
Saudi Arabia
United Arab Emirates
Yemen

This is a re-post of an earlier annoucement, now focusing on LAC, francophone West Africa and the Arab region. The deadlline for application is 16th May.

 

Organizations

African Cities Journal aspires to gather existing and future knowledge in the field of urban spaces in Africa through original research articles, as well as more prospective endeavours of theory and methodology. 

Centre for Liveable Cities Singapore

The Centre distills key learning points from Singapore’s urban development journey since its independence in 1965, while creating knowledge to address emerging urban challenges. It shares this knowledge with local and international urban leaders, with the aim of positioning Singapore as a global hub for urban solutions. The Centre’s work spans four main areas:

Research

The Centre focuses on two key research questions: 

cclaf
O Centro de Cultura Luiz Freire (CCLF) é uma organização não governamental de direitos humanos, que surge em 1972, a partir de um grupo que buscava a restauração da democracia, através de atividades culturais e projetos de desenvolvimento comunitário, durante o período autoritário da Ditadura Militar brasileira.
E&U
Environment and Urbanization (E&U) seeks to advance a more socially just and environmentally sustainable urban world through the provision of knowledge. Our focus is the global South, where an estimated one in three of the urban population live in informal settlements and where more than half work within the informal economy. UN projections suggest that almost all the world’s growth in population in the next few decades will be in urban centres in the Global South.
Journal of Architecture and Planning

The Architectural Institute of Japan’s Journal of Architecture and Planning aim to pursue theories for building and maintaining pieces of architecture as well as the cities or areas surrounding them, and to accumulate and systematize the knowledge needed to put those theories into practice.

Journal of Regional and City Planning

Journal of Regional and City Planning or JRCP is a tri-annual open access journal mainly focusing on urban and regional studies and planning in transitional, developing and emerging economies. JRCP covers topics related to the sciences, analytics, development, intervention, and design of communities, cities, and regions including their physical, spatial, technological, economic, social and political environments.

Ministry of Urban Development and Land

Reforming of the legal and organizational structures of government departments, for the purpose to develop relevant measures and to achieve a desirable situation is considered as one of the basic methods for reform of the administrative system, which provides ground for success in providing better services for the public of the country. With regard to such policies, ex Ministry of Urban Development and Housing - MUDH and ex Afghanistan Land Authority – ARAZI, has been merged on the bases of presidential decree no.

Natures Sciences Sociétés est une revue de l'association NSS-Dialogues publiée avec le soutien de AgroParisTech, du Cirad, du CNRS (INEE et INSHS), de l'IRD et de l'INRAE.

La revue Natures Sciences Sociétés entend s’adresser à tous ceux qui s’interrogent sur les constructions des problèmes d’environnement et les politiques de recherche autour des changements globaux, de la biodiversité, de la sécurité alimentaire, des dynamiques territoriales et urbaines, des relations santé-environnement.

URBAN DESIGN International
  • An international forum for discussion and debate over issues of urban design and management
  • Stands as a trustworthy source of information on issues of urban design and management, for researchers, urban designers, architects, planners, landscape architects, developers and others
  • Presents original articles, reviews, books and expert commentary

This platform is a framework for the meeting, networking, information, exchanging experiences, and developing the potential of young people for land governance that promotes development in Africa.

We value the potential of young people for land governance;  create the synergy of action between youth associations to become an international Youth network for the promotion and protection of the rights of young people and women; help young people identify and benefit from opportunities relating to state projects and support training and research for young people in the land sector.

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